Preparing for rehearsals. Organising your early responses to the text ; Organising information about each scene ; Investigating the big ideas of the play ; Analysing the action of the play ; Deepening work on character ; Building relationship with your production team ; Selecting actors and testing starting points for rehearsals ; Preparing the rehearsal environment
Rehearsals. The initial few days of rehearsal ; Building the world of the play ; Working on the scenes of the play
Getting into the theatre and the public performances. Technical and dress rehearsals ; The public performances
Context and sources. How I learnt the skills the book describes.
